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A Wylie man was sentenced Friday to 58 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of his wife’s friend in 2011, according to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office.

Dao Minh Truong, 30, was convicted of murder in the death of Hong Yin and sentenced by a Collin County jury. He will be eligible for parole after serving 29 years.

According to prosecutors, Truong’s estranged wife, Soka Voth, had been dating Yin after her husband moved out of their house in Wylie.

At about 11:15 p.m. Sept. 9, 2011, Truong sent Voth a text message, “threatening to break everything in the house unless she returned home quickly.” When Voth arrived, Truong was standing in the yard with a piece of lumber. He and his brother, Dat Truong, who was also there, saw Yin at the end of the street and confronted him. A struggle ensued. Yin was stabbed five times in the back and stomach. The brothers fled the scene.

During interviews with Wylie police, Truong admitted to being involved in a fight with Yin but denied killing him. But in a recorded jail phone call with a family member, Truong said he had stabbed Yin.

His brother, Dat Hai Truong, 26, also is accused of murder. His trial is set for August.